Gregory Patrick Garvey
Kaiseisan Daijingu Ki Series
Kaiseisan Daijingu Ki Series #1
This series is based on photographs taken of the angular branching of pine trees at Kaiseisan Daijingu, a Shinto shrine located in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. These photos are uploaded to Midjourney. Through repeated written prompts, I coaxed Midjourney to create glitch art distortions that bear little resemblance to the original photos that serve as seeds to bias the generated outcome. I avoid the tropes of AI photo-real or surreal or AI fakes. Instead, I use AI to generate multiple iterations aligned with an aesthetic of abstraction open to stochastic serendipty.
Kaiseisan Daijingu Ki Series
Kaiseisan Daijingu Ki Animation
I create playful, interactive, digital art installations using game engines and AI-generated art for digital animations and prints. I have presented my work around the world in venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London or at Tech Fest in Mumbai or the Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan in Urgench. I teach at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.
Press includes Wired Magazine, the National Geographic Magazine or the Daily NUTMEG (New Haven). At Quinnipiac University, I founded and in teach in the Game Design & Development Program, served as the Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and as Visiting Fellow in the Arts. Other appointments include Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts, Yale University, Chair of the Department of Design Art, Concordia University in Montréal and as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Previously, I've previously worked in the games industry.